buith

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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  • both (original nominative)
  • buid (mostly Würzburg spelling)

Etymology

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Originally the dative (and accusative) of both, from Proto-Celtic *butā (compare Welsh bod), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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buith f (genitive buithe)

  1. verbal noun of at·tá
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5b20
      trisin intamail sin .i. combad ǽt leu buid domsa i n-iriss et duús in intamlitis
      through that imitation, i.e. so that there may be jealousy with them for me to be in faith and if by chance they might imitate [me]
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15a20
      Ní foí⟨l⟩sitis déicsin a gnúsa íar mbid dó oc accaldim Dé, oc tindnacul recto dó.
      They would not have endured the beholding of his face after he had been conversing with God, at the bestowing of the law to him.

Inflection

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Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative buithL, bothL
Vocative buithL, bothL
Accusative buithN, bid
Genitive buitheH
Dative buithL, bid
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: beith, bith

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
buith buith
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
mbuith
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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